I don't know if you have experienced the same issue as I, but basically when trying to play a transcoded file the TV would display a black screen for some 30 seconds and then exit. After some debugging and testing various options, I finally found an option to set in SamsungAllShare.conf that fixed my issue: "ChunkedTransfer=true"

Also, it appears that AllShare can play wmv-3 files, but not wmv-1 or wmv-2. Don't know how to explicitly allow streaming of wmv-3 but transcoding of the other formats. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thank you. Nice going. I'm still receiving a message using mencoder that "The file may not play properly" but it does play the video.

I should have thought of this as the the Samsung TVs (and others) open and close the connection after receiving X blocks of data. I noticed that while capturing packets to resolve the thumbnails not working.

BTW for others trying this. I had troubles just adding the one line. I didn't spend time to compare my entire .conf file but when I copied your entire file contents it did work. It might just be that I had a few too many changes to the standard 'allshare.conf' file.

Once I get through my medical emergencies I hope to look into this why the warning and what it is really trying to tell the user.

It works very nice. However there was one thing bother me very much. The external subtitles sometimes work, sometime do not work at all even the video title showed as .....{external subtitles}. It is noted that both of the MKV do not show any subtitles when using xbmc other player or direct play on samsung tv from USB memory.

So I carefully compared the these two kinds of MKV by MKVToolnix, and found out something interesting. If the MKV file only contains video and audio in it, the external subtitles will work. If the MKV file contain video, audio and subtitle in it(the subtitle seems empty, do not show subtitle by xbmc or other player) , the external subtitles will not work.Then I deleted those empty subtitles from the MKV inside, and make a new MKV only have video and audio. After I reset the PMS, the external subtitle showed perfectly.

I have read a lot complains about the external subtitles failure. Probably they also have some empty subtitle insider of the MKV. Hope my information could help.

kalivas wrote:So nobody has resolved the issue of transcoding on the 2012 Samsungs using PS3MS? It seems like there isn't a solution out there currently, every reply I've read with a similar problem describe the same issue (black screen for about a minute, does not play)

If anybody has managed to fix this it would be appreciated if you could share your solution, thanks!

I've supplied a debug/trace earlier in the thread... awaiting to see what they say.

Hello all

Does someone have some idea how to resolve that problem ? I experience the same issue, no transcoding, black screen for around 30 seconds, buffer -95 xxx MB and disconnect. TV Samsung (new one - 2012, bought few days ago), model UE46EH5300. I should mention that streaming works fine without transcoding .I attach my debug, renderers conf file and PMS.conf

I have the exactly same problem about transcoding. Maybe the transcoding failure is not because of PMS, it is due to the computer.As far as I know, transconding is a heavy CPU consumption work. Maybe our computer cpu is not powerful enough to transcode video efficiently. As suggested by PLEX media center, Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2.4 GHz or betterAt least 2GB RAM was suggested if transcoding required

# Recent firmware (0016 and 0019) has been reported to no longer send additional headers info# Leaving this in for backwards compatibility with older firmwareUserAgentAdditionalHeader=X-AV-Client-InfoUserAgentAdditionalHeaderSearch=(\w{3}_\w{3}_\w{2}-\w{2}\d{2}\w\d{4}/\d.\d)|(\w{3}_\w{3}_\[\w{2}\]-\w{2}\d{2}\w\d{4}/\d.\d)|(\w{3}_\w{3}_\w{2}-\w{2}\d{2}\w\d{3}/\d.\d)|(\w{3}_\w{3}_\[\w{2}\]-\w{2}\d{2}\w\d{3}/\d.\d)

I've a little problem. I'm able to seek movie (+/-15s) but no fast forward or rewind. When I try ("2" on screen ) buttons I see information that rewind is not supported. Is this because of video transcoding settings? I have set "SeekByTime" to "true".

My TV is connected by cable to router and my notebook is connected by wifi (G type).

I have a problem, maybe is a noob question but I searched this forum and googled around but I didn't find the answer.

I play some videos (divx avi) on a Samsung Allshare 6600. There are external (srt) subtitles.When I use Minidlna 1.1.0 on a Linux PC, I press the Tools button on the remote and my TV shows a Subtitles option so I can enable/disable subtitles directly from the TV. When I use PMS 1.81.0 (SamsungAllShare.conf 1.4.4), no matter which settings I enable (load automatically subtitles, subtitles language priority, use ass/asa subtitles, and so on), the Subtitles option on my tv is missing. It is quite frustrating because each time I have to enable/disable subtitles manually from PMS.Maybe I should also try changing video decoding engine but I wonder what happens because I thought Minidlna was inferior compared to PMS.

Guys, for some reason, when you use PMS with a Allshare Samsung TV, the TV can't read the external subtitles when the movie has internal subtitles.

A workaround for this problem is: download a program called mkvmerge GUI and remove all the internal subtitles. It takes less than 2 minutes for a 5 gb movie. It's really easy, even my grandmother can do it.